Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-10

| anu meet your lalnef anu uuOtneI WituOut
the staff or the stoop, and your children
in dance of immortal glee. Do you want
throne? Select it from the million
FURNISHED elevations Do you want a
crown? Pick it out of that mountain OF
diamond coronets Do you want your old
church friends of earth around you? Be
gin to hum an old revival tune and they
will flock from all quarters to reyel with
you in sacred Renaissance. All the earth
for those who are here on earth at the time
of continental and planetary distribution,
and all the heaven for those who are there.
That
| HEAVENLY DISTRIBUTION OF sPoIIS
will be surprise to many. Here enters
heaven the soul of a man who took up a
good deal of room in the church on earth
but sacrificed little, and among his good
works selishness was evident. He Just
crowds through the shining gate, but it is
very tight squeeze so that the doorkeeper
has to pull bard to get him in, and this
man expects half of heaven for his share OF
trophies, and he would like 4 monopoly OF
all his splendor, and to purchase lots in
the suburbs so that he could get advantage
from the growth of the city. Well, he had
little grace of heart, just enough to get
him through, and to him is given second.
hand crown which one of the saints wore
at the start, but exchanged for a brighter
one as he went on from glory to glory.
And he is put in an old house once occu.
pied BY an angel who was hurled out Of
Heaven at the time OF Satan's rebellion.
Right after him comes a soul that makes
a great stir among the celestials, and the
angels rush to the scene, each bringing t.
her dazzling coronet Who is she? Over
what realm on earth was she queen? In
what great Dusseldorf festival was she the
cantatrice? Neither She was an invalid
who never left her room for twenty years
but she was strong in prayer and she
prayed down revival after revival, and
pentecost after penticost, upon the church,
and with her pale hands she knit many q
mitten or tippet for the poor, and with her
contrivances she added joy to many holi-
day festival, and now, with those thin
hands so strong for kindness, and with
those white lips so strong for supplication,
she has won coronation, and enthronement
and jubilee. And Christ says to the an
gels who have brought each crown fol
the glorifed invalid: mo, not these, they
are not good enough. But in the jeweled
vase at the right hand side of my throne
there is one that have been preparing for
her for many year, and for her every
pang have set an amethyst, and for her
every good deed have set pearl. Fetch
it now and fulfill the promise | gave her
long ago in the sick room: BE thou faith,
ful unto death, and l will give thee a
CROWN
But notice that
THERE IS ONLY ONE BEING
in the universe who can and will distrib
ute the trophies Of earth and heaven. II
is the Divine Warrior, the Commander-in'
Chief of the centuries, the champion OF
the ages, the universal conquerer, the Son
Of God, Jesus. You will take the spOils
from His hand or you never take them at
all. Have His friendship and you may
defy all time and all eternity, but without
it you were pauper, though yOu had q
universe at your commadd. We are told
in Revelation that Jacobs twelve sons
were so honored as to have the twelve
gates of heaven named after them-over
one gate of heaven Naphtali, over another
gate of heaven IsSachar, over another Dan
over another Cad over another Xebulon,
over another Judah, and so on. But
Christ's name is written over oil the gates
and on every panel of the gates, and hav,
His help His pardon, His intercession,
His atonement | must or be a fOrlorr
wretch forever. My Lord and my God,
make me and all who hear me this day,
and all to whom these words shall come,
Thy repentent, believing, sworn, conse'
Grated and ransOmed followers forever.
WHAT A DAY
it will be. This entire assemblage would
rise to your feet if you could realize it, the
day in which Christ shall in fulfllment OF
my text divide the spoil. 1t was great
day. when Queen Victoria, in the midst OF
the Crimean war, distributed medals to the
soldiers who had come home sick and
wounded. At the Horse Guards, i'll presence
of the Royal Family, the injured men were
carried in or came on crutches-COl. TrOw-
bridge, who lost both feet at 1nkerman,
and Capt. Sawyer who had the ankle joint
of his right leg shot off at Alma; and Capt.
Cure, his disabled limb supported by n
soldier, and others MANNED, and disfigurcd,
and exhausted-and with her own hand
the Queen gave such the Crlmean medal.
And what triumphant days for those sol
diers when, further on, they received the
French medal with the imperial eagle, and
the Turkish medal with its representation
of four fags-France, Turkey, England,
and Sardinia-and beneath it map Of the
Crimea spread over a gun wheel.
And what rewards are suggested TO all
readers of history by the mere mention OF
the Waterloo medal, and the Cape medal ,
and the Gold Cross medal, and the medal
struck for bravery in our American wars!
But how Insignificant all these compared
with the day when the good soldiers OF
Jesus Christ shall come in out of the bat
ties of this world, and in the presence of
all the piled-up glories of the redeemed
and the unfallen, Jesus, our King, shall
divide the spoil The more wounds, th5
greater the inheritance. The longer the
forced march, the brighter the trophy.
The more terrific the exhaustion, the more
glorious the transport. Not the gift of a
brilliant ribbon, or a medal Of brass, or
silver, or gold, but kingdom in which we
are TO reigh for ever and ever. Mansions
on the eternal hills. Dominions of un-
fading power. Empires Of unending love.
Continents of everlasting light. Atlantic
and Pacific
OCEANS OF BILLOwING JOY.
It was a great day when Aurelian, the Ro-
man Emperor, came back from his yicto-
ries. In the front Of the procession were
wild beasts from all lands, sixteen hun
dred gladiators richly clad, wagon loads Of
crowns presented by conquered cities;
among the captives Syrians, Egyptians,
Goths, vandals, Samaritans, Franks; and
Zenobia, the beautiful captive queen, on
foot in chains Of gold that slave had TO
help her carry, and jewels under the
weight of which she almost tainted. And
then came the chariot Of Aurelian drawn
by four elephants in gorgeous caparison,
and followed by the Roman Senate and
the Roman army, and from dawn till dark
the procession was passing. Rome in all
her history never saw anything more mag
nificent. But how much greater the day
when our COnquerer, Jesus, shall ride un-
der the triumphal arches Of heaven; his
captives, hand or foot or in chariots, all